The kvm i8254 emulation for counter 0 (but not for counters 1 and 2)
has at least two bugs in mode 0:
1. The OUT bit, computed by pit_get_out(), is never set high.
2. The counter value, computed by pit_get_count(), wraps back around to
the initial counter value, rather than wrapping back to 0xFFFF
(which is the behavior described in the comment in __kpit_elapsed,
the behavior implemented by qemu, and the behavior observed on AMD
hardware).
The bug stems from __kpit_elapsed computing the elapsed time mod the
initial counter value (stored as nanoseconds in ps->period). This is both
unnecessary (none of the callers of kpit_elapsed expect the value to be
at most the initial counter value) and incorrect (it causes pit_get_count
to appear to wrap around to the initial counter value rather than 0xFFFF).
Removing this mod from __kpit_elapsed fixes both of the above bugs.
Signed-off-by: Nickolai Zeldovich <nickolai@csail.mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>